#nothingnew — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nothingnew, aggregated by home.social.
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Make the #4opens fashionable
The crisis of the #openweb isn't just coming from the #dotcons. It's also coming from us. Our #mainstreaming #fashionistas are dangerously consumptive, forever chasing the next platform, the next funding round, the next shiny self abstraction. Meanwhile, our alternative #fashionistas mirror exactly the same behaviour, endlessly reinventing tools that never escape their own echo chambers. Both paths produce the same result: more #TechShit, more #TechChurn, less social value. We don't need […] -
What do people think of a #Moodle plugins market place to allow monetisation for developers ....
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Dealing with #mainstreaming people is exhausting - not because most have bad intentions, but because decades of life inside a #deathcult system leave us carrying habits of fear, distrust and learned helplessness.
We need better social ways to mediate this mess: compassion, yes, but also clarity, boundaries and collective care.
That's part of the work of #OMN, the #openweb and the #4opens. #NothingNew #SocialChange
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We're living inside a full-blown #blinded ideology: 40 years of #neoliberalism layered onto the liberal consensus. That's a powerful #BLOCK on imagining different futures.
One way to push back is to name today's "common sense" for what it is: worship of the #deathcult.
On the grassroots tech path keep it simple: #openweb vs #closedweb. Use the #4opens to judge and compost #techcrap instead of feeding the #techchurn.
Shared #hashtags are simple organising tools.
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There’s a lot of pointlessness in the world. Open up any space and it tends to flood in.
Meanwhile, what we call “meaning” is often just noise that holds for a moment before it fades.
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If you see the political spectrum as a question of social instincts, the right tends towards fear and control, while the left tends towards trust and openness.
Which makes you wonder... where is the "left" in mainstream US politics?
Maybe the debate is happening inside a much narrower space than people like to admit.
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Best not to keep feeding the churn. It's #KISS #openweb and #closedweb. The rest is #fashernista guff that'll need composting when the next buzzwords arrive in a year or two.
Keep it simple. #KISS
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The #fashernistas need to get off their knees and start calling out pointless things.
Pick up the #4opens as a shovel. There's a mountain of #techshit that needs composting before anything healthy can grow.
In the era of #climatechaos, too many people are still kneeling before the #deathcult. If this idea fills you with fear, ask yourself: who or what is your head bowed to?
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All thinking is critique. If you're not looking for faults, you're probably not looking at the thing at all.
Don't be afraid of the mess. Pick up the #4opens and start gardening #techshit. There's plenty of compost to plant seeds of hope in this era of #climatechaos.
Lift your head. Look around. See what's really growing.
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The tools we need to compost the #deathcult
The current mess and tragedy is that the tools we need most are often the first things that stressed, messy, #elitist systems defund, discredit, and dismantle. Why? Because these tools threaten the psychological certainty that people cling to when the world feels unstable. The ability to sit with uncertainty, to question assumptions, to admit complexity. These are not weaknesses, they are survival tools. Yes, this is a mess we need to compost, the #nothingnew path to work on this is about […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-tools-we-need-to-compost-the-deathcult/
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Having a shared pool of hashtags is a way of creating social cohesion and action - a way for people to find each other and talk across #silos. It is a #DIY “search” system, but only if people actually use and share the language.
The #OMN use of hashtags is mostly #nothingnew. I take existing ideas, connect them to outcomes, and create shorthand for conversations that already exist. Examples:
#deathcult = neoliberalism, with the understanding of the real-world outcomes. The metaphor connects a political mindset with its consequences. The historical reference comes from the Irish potato famine - reminder of what happens when a mindset becomes #mainstreaming and millions of people are treated as expendable.
#Geekproblem = a critique of a strand of 20th-century modernism when technical thinking becomes dogmatic. The problem is not “geeks” or technology itself - there is a good side to modernism. The problem is losing the social nuance and turning everything into a technical problem.
#stupidindividualism = thinking about the balance between self and society. It is an outcome of the #deathcult and a symptom of the #geekproblem - the idea that everything can be reduced to isolated individuals instead of relationships and communities.
Could go on…
The point is not the hashtag itself. The point is building shared language, so people recognise patterns, connect ideas and work across the current #blocking silos.
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‘We Are Aliens,’ Cannes, Annecy Buzz Title, Sells Wide Across Asia (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #AnnecyAnimationFestival #Charades #DulacDistribution #KoheiKadowaki #MiyuProductions #NOTHINGNEW -
The path is #nothingnew -
science's methods - hypothesis testing, falsifiability, uncertainty management, peer review - formalised humility about complexity. They are the cultural technology we developed to think beyond the horizon of immediate tribal thinking.This is the toolkit that can help us escape the psychological traps. Not by eliminating the fear response, but by building social paths robust enough to fallow even when the humans inside them are scared.
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We talk about revolutions through simplified stories: heroes, villains, success, failure.
But real change is shaped by deeper forces - history, economics, ideology, institutions, culture, and the material conditions people are living through.
Often we fall back on comfortable liberal assumptions and narratives instead of asking harder questions about why movements emerge, how they transform, and why their outcomes become something different from their original hopes.
A better analysis needs more mess, not less.
Any understanding of change means looking beyond the slogans and into the systems that shape what becomes possible.
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#climatechaos is exposing the contradiction at the heart of capitalism: a system designed around competition and profit struggles when the challenge requires cooperation, long-term planning, and putting survival before short-term returns.
The question is not simply "market vs state". The deeper question is: how do we organise society when facing crises that demand collective action?
History shows that during major emergencies, societies shift into forms of collective mobilisation - redirecting resources, prioritising needs, and acting beyond normal market logic.
The challenge is building those responses without reproducing authoritarian control.
We need systems that are adaptive, democratic, and focused on human needs.
The climate crisis is not only a technology problem. It is a systems' problem.
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The dogma of one path: why alternatives, diversity and linking matter more
This toot sparked off some thinking - A blinded assumption of modern Western liberalism has been that there is an automatic connection between free enterprise, liberal democracy and economic and technological progress. The story was simple that open markets create wealth, wealth creates a middle class, the middle class creates democracy, technology and progress naturally follow the same path. This became more than an economic theory, it became a "common sense" worldview - a belief that every […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dogma-of-one-path-why-alternatives-diversity-and-linking-matter-more/
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How we built the neoliberal #Deathcult
For most people, the crisis feels recent. Housing costs. Energy bills. Food prices. Debt. Insecure work. Growing inequality. Endless wars. Ecological breakdown. The #mainstreaming story is that these are separate problems with separate causes. COVID. Ukraine. China. Immigration. Technology. Bad politicians. The reality is simpler, these crises grow from the same roots - the moment things changed, one graph tells the story. From the end of World War II until roughly the early 1970s, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/how-we-built-the-neoliberal-deathcult/
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The #deathcult isn’t just politics or economics. It’s a dogma - a way of seeing the world that sits underneath what we call “common sense”. Forty years of #neoliberalism turned competition, greed, extraction, and isolation into normality. We breathe it in every day until it feels natural.
That’s the real prison: when the ideology disappears into the background and becomes invisible.
So how do we escape the mind prison?
It’s simpler than people think. Look outside the current mess. There are huge bodies of human thought, practice, and lived experience from before the rise of the #deathcult. Traditions of commons, mutual aid, collective survival, indigenous stewardship, labour organising, radical democracy, and the early #openweb all point to different ways of being human together.
The answers don’t come from worshipping new tech, stronger markets, or smarter branding. They come from remembering what was deliberately buried.
That’s why projects like #OMN matter. We need living alternatives, not just critique. We need spaces where trust, openness, and collective action can grow in native soil instead of inside the poisoned logic of the #closedweb and endless commodification.
The first step out of the prison is recognising the walls were built by people — which means they can also be dismantled by people.
#OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #mutualaid #socialchange #deathcult #nothingnew
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In what context?
This is what a #OMN is a collection of nodes, think of a #openweb #grassroots #DIY atavism fiendly Fediverse that was much less focused on copying #dotcons in ethical'ish ways... it's a very simple and #nothingnew path.
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The #deathcult is real, the mess is real, the #nothingnew reminder is useful. Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/
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Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess
This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/
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The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction
The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at social power. A powerless tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, but because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disappearing becomes the cost. This is not a "mistake", […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-everyday-con-how-the-deathcult-turns-crisis-into-extraction/
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Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […] -
#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #nothingnew is a grounding reminder that the cycles of co-optation, institutional failure, grassroots betrayal, and technological hype we're living through now have all happened before — and that ignoring this history is how movements keep making the same mistakes.
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#nothingnew is a way out of this trap – it’s deliberately challenging. Brains are for thinking, not food. History isn’t baggage; it’s a toolkit. Post-modernism is a dead philosophy that still rules the #mainstreaming https://hamishcampbell.com/post-modernism-is-a-dead-philosophy-that-still-rules-the-mainstreaming/
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The #dotcons, #mainstreaming, and Build to Walk Away
Three years ago I was trying to explain something simple in language liberals might actually hear. They talk about “platform capitalism.” Fine. But I’ve been calling it the #dotcons for 20 years - because that’s what it is - a con. The last 30 years of tech hasn’t just drifted into this mess. It’s been shaped, step by step, enclosure by enclosure, into systems designed to extract value from us. What we now call the internet is, in large part, a machine built to manipulate, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dotcons-mainstreaming-and-build-and-walk-away/
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Gates vs Bridges: the obscure politics of the #geekproblem
In the #geekproblem mindset, crossing a protocol flow is a gateway were in #openweb terms, it’s a bridge. That difference is not technical - it’s social - the difference between CONTROL and TRUST. A gate is something you lock, permission, authentication, enforcement were a bridge is something you cross, connection, flow, relationship. In the physical world, we don’t put gates on bridges as a default, but in software, we keep rebuilding them, and then wondering why things fragment. RSS […]https://hamishcampbell.com/gates-vs-bridges-the-obscure-politics-of-the-geekproblem/
